The effects of gender on health-related quality of life in pediatric live-donor kidney transplantation: A single-center experience in a developing country

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 188-195

  El Husseini, Amr ^a   Hassan, Rashad ^a   Sobh, Mohamed ^a   Ghoneim, Mohamed ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Gender; Kidney transplantation; Live donor; Pediatric; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; GENDER; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GROWTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; OBESITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBERTY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SOCIAL LIFE; SPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORK DISABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EGYPT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 76449093574     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2009.01174.x     Document Type: Article

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